A major concern of government agencies, service providers, and in fact, businesses in general, is the flow of information, the storage of relevant data and the ease of access to such data. Information is relied on policy making, data analysis, daily operations and the finding of solution to all...

This paper considers a traditional problem of resource allocation: scheduling jobs on machines. One such recent application is cloud computing, where jobs arrive in an online fashion with capacity requirements and need to be immediately scheduled on physical machines in data centers. It is often...

This document presents the work performed under the contract SMART 2016 / 0029 "Certification schemes for Cloud Computing" from March 2017 to March 2018. It aims to provide the European Commission with evidence of what is retaining the adoption of cloud computing as well as to why cloud service...

This is the Final Report of the study "SMART 2016/0032 - Switching of Cloud Services Providers "entrusted by the European Commission DG CONNECT to IDC and Arthur's Legal. The focus of the study is to gather evidence concerning the practices of cloud service providers in relation to data and...

This study aims to investigate the economic value of cloud computing from the perspective of the stock market. More specifically, we conceptualize the relationship between the cloud computing initiatives of firms and the market reaction based on resource-based and extended resource-based views....